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A US Court Struck the Tariff, and C$97 Million Came Back

Aritzia recognised about C$97.4 million of United States tariff refunds inside its second-quarter gross profit, and reported a 57.1 per cent gross margin against 48.7 per cent without them. The money exists because the Supreme Court of the United States held on February 20, 2026 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorise the President to impose tariffs. Canada's own surtax on American goods, in force since September 8, 2026, sets up the same accounting question in the other direction, with remission rather than refund as the route back.

By Hannah Kuan8 min read

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Canadian Miners Made More Metal Than They Sold Last Quarter

Mining and metals names took 26 of the 47 places on this week's Canadian mover lists, and two of the quarter's production releases carried the same quiet feature: more metal came out of the ground than went off the books. DPM Metals produced about 97,000 gold-equivalent ounces in the September quarter and sold about 77,000. Ivanhoe Mines finished the quarter holding roughly 43,000 tonnes of unsold copper, up from about 40,000. Neither gap is a demand problem, and only one of them closes on its own.

By Marc Belzile10 min read

Canadian Markets

C$97 Million of Tariff Refunds Sit Inside Aritzia's Record Margin

Aritzia reported second quarter fiscal 2027 results after the close on 8 October 2026. Net revenue rose 44.1 per cent to C$1.17 billion and comparable sales rose 34.5 per cent. The reported gross margin of 57.1 per cent includes C$97.4 million of tariff refunds; excluding them the margin was 48.7 per cent. The company lifted its full-year outlook, which excludes any further refund benefit. The shares closed at C$146.91 on 9 October, up 20.5 per cent.

By Marc Belzile6 min readATZ.TO

Mining and Resources

What Does Oceanic Iron Ore Have at Hopes Advance?

Oceanic Iron Ore paid for the distribution of an October 8, 2026 message in which its chief executive discussed demand for green steel. Behind it sits a genuinely large deposit: 1.36 billion tonnes measured and indicated at Hopes Advance in northern Quebec, yielding a 66.6 per cent iron product with very low alumina and phosphorus. The resource estimate dates from 2012 and the newest economic study from 2020.

By Élise Galarneau7 min readFEO.V

Technology

Firan Technology Jumps 26% a Day After Its Results Landed

Firan Technology Group reported third-quarter revenue of C$64.1 million, gross margin of 42.9 per cent and bookings of C$90.2 million in a release issued after the Toronto close on October 7, 2026. The shares closed at C$32.11 the next day, up 26.4 per cent on 366,498 shares against a 79,402-share average. The company credits part of the margin widening to short-term pricing premiums for expedited delivery.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readFTG.TO

Mining and Resources

Ivanhoe Raises Kamoa-Kakula Copper Output 19% as Guidance Falls

Ivanhoe Mines reported 76,401 tonnes of copper in saleable products from Kamoa-Kakula for the third quarter of 2026, up from 64,328 tonnes in the second. The shares fell 4.1 per cent to C$11.13 in Toronto on the day. The same release puts 2026 output at 290,000 to 310,000 tonnes and says production is trending toward the lower end, against the 380,000 to 420,000 tonnes the company guided for 2026 in December 2025.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readIVN.TO

Mining and Resources

20,000 Ounces Separate What DPM Metals Made From What It Sold

DPM Metals reported third-quarter production of 97,000 gold-equivalent ounces on October 8, 2026 and said it now expects the high end of its 2026 guidance. The same release shows 77,000 payable ounces sold. At Vares, the mine that declared commercial production in August, 45,000 ounces produced became 30,000 sold. The shares closed at C$54.42, up 4.7 per cent.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readDPM.TO

Mining & Energy

Nothing Changed Hands: Myriad Takes Back 24 Arizona Uranium Pipes

Myriad Uranium (CSE: M) said on 7 October 2026 that it has terminated the option agreement over its Arizona Breccia Pipe Project, executed on 9 June 2026, and re-assumed 100 per cent ownership of 24 breccia pipe prospects, with no consideration payable by either party. It has also acquired the State lease covering the Wate Pipe. Ownership is now complete and the geological case behind it sits several rungs below a resource.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readM.CN

Technology

Volatus Delivers Its First NATO Drone Tranche Six Months Late

Volatus Aerospace (TSX: FLT) said on 7 October 2026 that it has finished delivering the aircraft under the roughly C$4.5 million first tranche of an ISR training contract with an unnamed NATO partner, and that the customer has begun exercising the second tranche of a deal worth up to C$9 million. The company's own second-quarter release explains why that delivery had not happened sooner, and why the revenue has not shown up yet either.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readFLT.TO

Mining & Energy

Metalsource Steps 1.1 Kilometres North of Everything It Has Drilled

Metalsource Mining (CSE: MSM) said on 7 October 2026 that Phase 2 drilling has begun at Silver Hill in North Carolina, with holes planned about 1,120 metres north of the known deposit against induced-polarization anomalies that have never been tested. The company has spent 2026 calibrating that geophysical signal against real intercepts, which is what makes the northern targets more than lines on a map. It is also the whole of what has been proven about them.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readMSM.CN

Mining & Energy

55% for Radius Gold on Permission to Drill in Peru

Radius Gold (TSXV: RDU) said on 7 October 2026 that Peru's regional mining authority in Arequipa has authorised exploration, including drilling, at its Tierra Roja copper project. The shares closed up 55.2 per cent at C$0.225 on about 35 times average volume. The release sets out the permitting chain in detail and says nothing about holes, metres, timing beyond year-end or cost, and the company's own interim statements carry a going-concern warning.

By Élise Galarneau6 min readRDU.V

Mining & Energy

Quebec's New Government Inherits First Phosphate's Fast-Track Status

First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS) holds Filon fast-track status from Quebec's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests, granted 27 July 2026, and letters from two European export credit agencies covering up to US$212.5 million and EUR 170 million. None of those is a permit or a drawn loan. After the Parti Québécois won a minority on 5 October 2026, this is what the documents actually support and what they do not.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readPHOS.CN

Mining & Energy

Why DPM Metals' Own Outlook Stops Short of a Million Ounces

DPM Metals Inc. (TSX: DPM) guides to 305,000 to 365,000 gold-equivalent ounces in 2026 and publishes an outlook averaging about 350,000 a year through 2028. Adding Čoka Rakita at its feasibility-study rate gets to roughly 530,000. The chief executive's own public figure is about 600,000. The million-ounce target circulating among shareholders is an inference drawn from an interview, not guidance, and the two assets that could close the gap have no published resource estimate.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readDPM.TO

Mining & Energy

Cameco's Korean Nuclear Framework: An Intention, Not an Order

The United States and the Republic of Korea announced a framework on 30 September 2026 under which Korea would invest US$120 billion toward building Westinghouse reactor technology in the United States. Cameco acknowledged it, owns 49 per cent of Westinghouse, and is not a party to it. The terms are non-binding. What Cameco sells is uranium under contracts already signed, and those are the numbers that decide the year.

By Élise Galarneau6 min readCCO.TO

Mining & Energy

QIMC Finds a Wet-Gas Signature in 86% of Nova Scotia Soil Samples

Québec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC) reported on 6 October 2026 that 86 per cent of classified soil-gas samples at New Salem-Apple River, Nova Scotia, carry a thermogenic wet-gas signature. More than 1,000 analyses provide the company’s largest and most internally consistent dataset at the property, strengthening the case for further exploration. The results identify gas reaching surface; seismic and drilling are needed to establish the characteristics of the system below.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readQIMC.CN

Mining and Resources

F3 Uranium's Interest Payment to Denison: One Third in Shares

F3 Uranium Corp., which trades as FUU on the TSX Venture Exchange and as GL7 in Frankfurt, said on October 2, 2026 that it would issue 797,872 common shares to Denison Mines Corp. at a deemed price of C$0.141, together with C$225,000 in cash, to settle a quarter's interest on a C$15 million convertible debenture. Against 662,375,097 shares outstanding that is dilution of about 0.12 per cent. The larger pending item is the share consolidation, which the exchange has not yet accepted.

By Priya Sandhu9 min readFUU.V

Energy

Cenovus Agrees to Buy Athabasca Oil, and the Terms Are an Election

Athabasca Oil Corporation (TSX: ATH) agreed on October 5, 2026 to be acquired by Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX: CVE) in a cash and share transaction implying about C$5.8 billion of equity value. Athabasca closed at C$12.01, above the C$12.00 cash election, on nine times average volume. The consideration is subject to pro-ration, the share leg floats with the Cenovus price, and neither release discloses a break fee or the shareholder approval threshold.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readATH.TO

Mining and Resources

What Is Inside Apex's Longest Rare Earth Intercept?

Apex Critical Metals Corp. (CSE: APXC, FWB: KL9) reported on October 5, 2026 that step-out drilling extended the Trinity Zone at its Rift project in Nebraska about 200 metres down dip to the west, returning 3.55 per cent rare earth oxide over 116.0 metres and 2.35 per cent over 171.5 metres in core length. The drilling is real and the grades are among the project's best. The release carries no cut-off grade, no downhole depths and no oxide-by-oxide assay, and Rift has no mineral resource estimate.

By Daniel Okoye9 min readAPXC.CN

Technology

Why Light AI Stopped Work on Its Only Product

Light AI Inc. (Cboe Canada: ALGO) closed at C$0.04 on October 5, 2026, down 72.4 per cent, after telling the market at 20:34 ET on Friday October 2 that it had found gaps in the evidence supporting its only product and would not advance toward a U.S. Food and Drug Administration submission. The share count did not change, so the fall is a loss of value rather than a consolidation. The Health Canada licence granted in August remains in force.

By Élise Galarneau8 min readALGO.NEO

Mining and Resources

Xatśūll First Nation Ends Its Agreements With Spanish Mountain Gold

On 1 October 2026 the Xatśūll First Nation announced it was terminating all of its agreements with Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. CIRO halted the shares that morning and they resumed the next day, when the company replied that British Columbia's assessment office had confirmed in August it was not pursuing termination of the environmental assessment. The company's own quarterly filing had already disclosed that the 2021 protocol was no longer in force.

By Élise Galarneau9 min readSPA.V

Mining and Resources

Where Are the Assays From Super Copper's First Four Chilean Holes?

Super Copper Corp. (CSE: CUPR; FSE: N60) reported on 1 October 2026 that visible copper minerals were logged in all four completed holes of its maiden drill programme at Cordillera Cobre in Chile's Atacama region, across roughly 2,348 metres. No assays have been returned. The project is held under an option to earn up to 100 per cent, not owned, and carries no mineral resource estimate of any kind, current or historical.

By Priya Sandhu10 min readCUPR.CN

macro

Five Categories Decide What a Canadian Miner May Publish

Twenty of the twenty-three stories The Maple Markets ran last week turned on the gap between a mining milestone and a mining result. Canadian securities law draws that gap in writing: NI 43-101 forbids an issuer from publishing a quantity or grade for any deposit it has not placed in one of five categories. Grid Metals, Lundin Gold, Hudbay and Aris Mining each sat on a different rung of that ladder in the same seven days.

By Daniel Okoye10 min read

macro

A 2026 Low for the Loonie Repriced Canadian Mining Revenue

Metals are quoted in US dollars. Canadian wages, power and provincial royalties are paid in Canadian dollars. The exchange rate sits between the two, and this year it moved far enough to change what a tonne of copper is worth in Canada by more than five per cent without any change in the metal price. Here is where that money goes, for a saver, a producer and a junior pricing a financing.

By Hannah Kuan7 min readXGD.TO

macro

Permit, Contract, Treaty: Three Ways a Foreign State Reaches Toronto

Colombia moved a date. Panama attached a condition. Greece switched on a power line. Three foreign-state acts landed on Canadian-listed miners inside one week, through three different legal instruments, and each one settles something the other two cannot. Natural Resources Canada counts C$240.6 billion of Canadian mining assets outside the country; the instruments are how those assets are actually held.

By Priya Sandhu9 min read

Mining and Resources

Evergold Drills 7.7 Grams of Gold a Tonne at Its Golden Lion Project

Evergold Corp. (TSXV: EVER) reported assays on 2 October 2026 from the first six of sixteen 2026 holes at the GL1 zone of Golden Lion in northern British Columbia. Hole GL26-031 returned 4.9 metres at 7.70 g/t gold and 186.0 g/t silver. All six holes hit gold. The shares closed at C$0.36, down 20 per cent, on about nineteen times average volume. True widths are not known, assays are uncapped, and ten holes remain at the laboratory.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readEVER.V

Mining and Resources

Does a Draft EU Minerals Pact Change Anything for First Phosphate?

A draft joint statement circulating among EU member states before an October 2026 summit in Montreal would open European Investment Bank financing to Canadian critical-minerals projects, according to reporting on September 30, 2026. First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS, FSE: KD0) sits inside that perimeter. Its Bégin-Lamarche deposit in Saguenay grew to 204.7 million tonnes of measured and indicated resource this year, and it has no mineral reserve and no completed economic study.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readPHOS.CN

Mining and Resources

Colombia Shortens the Restriction Over Aris Mining's Soto Norte

Aris Mining Corporation (TSX: ARIS) said on September 30, 2026 that it has finished preparing the environmental and social impact assessment for Soto Norte in Colombia and will take it to three towns in October before filing it. The same release disclosed that Colombia's environment ministry revoked an extension of the temporary reserve area covering the project, so the restriction on new environmental licences there now lapses on March 4, 2027. Nothing can be built until a licence is granted, and the licence is the gate everything else waits behind.

By Élise Galarneau7 min readARIS.TO

Mining and Resources

QIMC Hires a Calgary Firm to Process 50 Kilometres of Seismic

Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. (CSE: QIMC) engaged Calgary’s Earth Signal Processing Ltd. on October 1, 2026 to process about 50 line-kilometres of two-dimensional seismic from Apple River and Bennett Hill, Nova Scotia. The appointment adds experienced processing support to a better-defined hydrogen and helium exploration programme. The images can help focus drilling targets, while pressure and flow measurements remain later steps with no announced date.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readQIMC.CN

Mining and Resources

33% for Beyond Oil on a Global Restaurant Vendor Approval

Beyond Oil Ltd. (TSX: BOIL) said on October 1, 2026 that it has been added to the global approved products list of a multinational restaurant parent company it does not name, and the shares closed up 33.9 per cent at C$2.41 on about 4.6 times average volume. The release states in its own words that the approval does not guarantee commercial adoption, deployment schedules or minimum order volumes from individual franchise partners. The company sells a frying-oil treatment, not oil and gas, and it reported US$1.4 million of revenue in its most recent quarter.

By Élise Galarneau6 min readBOIL.TO

Mining and Resources

Why Hercules Metals Is Drilling the Kilometre Between Two Discoveries

Hercules Metals Corp. (TSXV: BIG) reported 286.52 metres of 0.58 per cent copper equivalent from its Southern Flats zone in western Idaho on 30 September 2026, and says 3D modelling suggests the zone may be a one-kilometre southern extension of its Leviathan discovery. The company carries a market value of about C$407 million and has never published a mineral resource estimate, which makes every comparison with a peer a comparison between counted pounds and uncounted ones.

By Élise Galarneau7 min readBIG.V

Mining and Resources

Grid Metals Reported Its First Resource, and a 90-Day Clock Started

Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV: GRDM) published a maiden measured resource at its Lucy South cesium deposit in southeastern Manitoba on 30 September 2026 and the shares rose 13.3 per cent to a 52-week high. The estimate is 51,500 tonnes at 2.58 per cent Cs2O. Under the July joint venture with Avenir Minerals, the announcement also starts a 90-day window in which Avenir may subscribe for up to 19.99 per cent of Grid's shares at a 10 per cent premium to a 30-day average price.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readGRDM.V

Mining and Resources

Panama Ties Any Cobre Panamá Deal to Ending First Quantum's Arbitration

First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) disclosed on 30 September 2026 that Panama's Ministerial Commission has delivered seventeen recommendations on Cobre Panamá. The lead recommendation is to open negotiations on a new agreement, with termination of the company's international arbitrations set as a mandatory condition. The shares fell 15.3 per cent on the day while the copper price rose, which makes the move a judgement about Panama rather than about the metal.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readFM.TO

markets

Ag Growth Asks Debenture Holders to Wait Four More Years

Ag Growth International (TSX: AFN) proposed on 30 September 2026 to extend the maturity of its C$85 million 5.25 per cent senior subordinated debentures from 31 December 2026 to 31 December 2030 and raise the coupon to 9.00 per cent, with a holder vote set for 28 October. The shares rose 27.6 per cent. The series being amended rose 2.7 per cent, while two other series that are not being amended rose about 25 per cent each.

By Élise Galarneau7 min readAFN.TO

Mining and Resources

Why Equinox Left Mexico and Nicaragua Out of Its Drill Update

Equinox Gold's 29 September 2026 exploration update reported drill results from Musselwhite, Valentine and Greenstone, all in Canada, and disclosed that 45 rigs are turning across nine projects in four countries. Fifteen of those rigs are in Mexico and 12 in Nicaragua. No results from either country appear in the release, and no explanation for the omission does either.

By Priya Sandhu7 min readEQX.TO

Mining and Resources

93% of Aya Gold and Silver's Revenue Came From Silver

Aya Gold & Silver reported US$96.8 million of revenue for the June 2026 quarter, of which US$90.3 million came from silver and US$6.5 million from pyrite. No gold revenue line appears. The pure-play silver description that circulates among shareholders is supported by the current filings, and the Boumadine deposit Aya is drilling with 14 rigs is polymetallic enough to end it.

By Daniel Okoye7 min readAYA.TO

Mining and Resources

Westwin Agrees to Buy 20,000 Tonnes a Year From Red Flat

Homeland Nickel and Westwin Elements signed a binding offtake agreement on 28 September 2026 covering an estimated 20,000 tonnes of nickel concentrate a year from Red Flat, Oregon. Westwin will fund the bankable feasibility study, but only after reviewing a resource estimate and economic study Homeland expects to deliver in the first half of 2027. Red Flat's only resource figures are historical and cannot be relied on as current.

By Élise Galarneau9 min readSHL.V

Technology

Dye & Durham: A 144% Day on Fiscal 2026 Results

Dye & Durham reported fiscal 2026 results before the open on 29 September 2026: revenue of C$410.7 million, adjusted EBITDA of C$198.8 million, a net loss of C$38.5 million and a first lien net leverage ratio of 5.17 times. The shares closed at C$1.16, up 144.2 per cent. The release contains no fiscal 2027 guidance, no refinancing and no asset sale.

By Priya Sandhu6 min readDND.TO

Mining and Resources

Why Hudbay's Snow Lake Reserves Now Run to 2043

Hudbay Minerals said on 28 September 2026 that mineral reserves at its Snow Lake operations in Manitoba now support mining until 2043, an 18-year reserve life and two years longer than the January 2026 estimate. Reserves rose 7.5 million tonnes to 27.0 million tonnes holding about 2.0 million ounces of gold. The figures rest on assumed prices of US$3,600 an ounce for gold and US$5.00 a pound for copper, both below where those metals traded that day.

By Élise Galarneau8 min readHBM.TO

Mining and Resources

B2Gold Drills 10.9 Grams a Tonne at a New Goose Zone

B2Gold reported drill results from the Back River gold district in Nunavut on 28 September 2026, including 10.94 grams of gold per tonne over 9.95 metres from a single hole at a newly named zone called Tattuk, about 150 metres down plunge from Nuvuyak. The same release reaffirmed Goose mine guidance of 170,000 to 200,000 ounces of gold for 2026 and contained no production, grade, recovery or cost figures for the quarter.

By Daniel Okoye8 min readBTO.TO

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